TRUE CRIME: PROWLING FOR POKEMON PLAYERS

Police issued a warning to Pokémon GO players on the hunt near White Rock Lake. They are investigating a series of four robberies in the area that involve victims playing the game in the middle of the night. In each incident, the victim was robbed of a cellphone by three men, two of them armed with guns.

“[The victims] have their head down and they’re not paying attention,” says Lt. Chris Harmon of the Dallas robbery unit.

The first incident occurred July 22 when a man sitting in his car was robbed at gunpoint around 1 a.m. while looking for Pokémon in the 600 block of E. Lawther, according to Harmon. Less than 30 minutes later, the exact same crime was reported in the 2900 block of White Rock Road when four victims were robbed of their cellphones while playing the game, again by three suspects carrying two guns.

On July 26, two more victims were robbed in the 4800 block of West Lawther Drive around 1 a.m. The final crime took place on Aug. 2, around 2:30 a.m. when the three suspects targeted a male and female victim in the 4700 block of W. Lawther.

The suspects are described as black males in their late teens or early 20s, who were wearing dark pants and white T-shirts. In one of the offenses, a black female drove the suspects away in a white fourdoor sedan.